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PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. 



shall be taken by States, the Representative from each 

 State having one vote ; a quorum for this purpose shall 

 consist of a member or members from two-thirds of 

 the States, and a majority of all the States shall be 

 necessary to a choice. And if the House of Represent- 

 atives shall not choose a President, whenever the 

 right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the 

 fourth day of March next following, then the Vice- 

 President shall act as President, as in case of the 

 death, or other constitutional disability of the Presi- 

 dent. 



4. The person having the greatest number of votes 

 as Vice-President shall be the Vice-President, if such 

 number be a majority of the whole number of electors 

 appointed ; and if no person have a majority, then 

 from the two highest numbers on the list, the Sen- 

 ate shall choose the Vice-President ; a quorum for the 

 purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole num- 

 ber of Senators, and a majority of the whole number 

 shall be necessary for a choice. 



5. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the 

 office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice- 

 President of the Confederate States. 



6. The Congress may determine the time of choosing 

 the electors, and the day on which they shall give their 

 votes ; which day shall be the same throughout the 

 Confederate States. 



Y. No person except a natural born citizen of the 

 Confederate States, or a citizen thereof at the time of 

 the adoption of this Constitution, or a citizen thereof 

 born in the United States prior to the 20th December, 

 1860, shall be eligible to the office of President ; neither 

 shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not 

 have attained the age of thirty-five years, and been 

 fourteen years a resident within the limits of the Con- 

 federate States, as they may exist at the time of his 

 election. 



8. In case of the removal of the President from office, 

 or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge 

 the powers and duties of the said office, the same shall 

 devolve on the Vice-President ; and the Congress may, 

 by law, provide for the case of the removal, death, 

 resignation, or inability both of the President and the 

 Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as 

 President, and such officer shall then act accordingly 

 until the disability be removed or a President shall be 

 elected. 



9. The President shall, at stated times, receive for 

 his services a compensation, which shall neither be in- 

 creased nor diminished during the period for which 

 he shall have been elected ; and he shall not receive 

 within that period any other emolument from the Con- 

 federate States, or any of them. 



10. Before he enters on the execution of the duties 

 of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirma- 

 tion : 



" I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faith- 

 fully execute the office of President of the Confederate 

 States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, 

 protect, and defend the Constitution thereof." 



SEC. 2. The President shall be commander-in-chief 

 of the army and navy of the Confederate States, and 

 of the militia of the several States, when called into 

 the actual service of the Confederate States ; he may 

 require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer 

 in each of the Executive Departments, upon any sub- 

 ject relating to the duties of their respective offices ; 

 and he shall have power to grant reprieves and par- 

 dons for offences against the Confederate States, ex- 

 cept in cases of impeachment. 



2. He shall have power, by and with the advice and 

 consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two- 

 thirds of the Senators present concur ; and he shall 

 nominate, and, by and with the advice and consent of 

 the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public 

 ministers, and consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, 

 and all other officers of the Confederate States, whose 

 appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, 

 and which shall be established by law ; but the Con- 

 gress may by law vest the appointment of such in- 

 terior officers, as they think proper, in the President 



alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of depart- 

 ments. 



3. The principal officer in each of the Executive De- 

 partments, and all persons connected with the diplo- 

 matic service, may be removed from office at the 

 pleasure of the President. All other civil officers of 

 the Executive Department may be removed at any 

 time by the President, or other appointing power, 

 when their services are unnecessary, or for dishon- 

 esty, incapacity, inefficiency, misconduct, or neglect 

 of duty ; and when so removed, the removal shall 

 be reported to the Senate, together with the reasons 

 therefor. 



4. The President shall have power to fill all vacan- 

 cies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, 

 by granting commissions which shall expire at the end 

 of the next session ; but no person rejected by the 

 Senate shall be reappointed to the same office during 

 their ensuing recess. 



SEC. 3. The President shall, from time to time, give 

 to the Congress information of the state of the Con- 

 federacy, and recommend to their consideration such 

 measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient ; 

 he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both 

 Houses, or either of them ; and, in case of disagree- 

 ment between them, with respect to the time of ad- 

 journment, he may adjourn them to such time as he 

 may think proper ; he shall receive ambassadors and 

 other public ministers ; he shall take care that the 

 laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all 

 the officers of the Confederate States. 



SEC. 4. The President and Vice-President, and all 

 civil officers of the Confederate States, shall be re- 

 moved from office on impeachment for, or conviction 

 of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misde- 

 meanors. 



ARTICLE III. SEC. 1. The judicial power of the Con- 

 federate States shall be vested in one Superior Court, 

 and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from 

 time to time ordain and establish. The judges, both 

 of the Supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their 

 offices during good behavior, and shall, at stated 

 times, receive for their services a compensation, which 

 shall not be diminished during their continuance in 

 office. 



SEC. 2. The judicial power shall extend to all cases 

 arising under the Constitution, the laws of the Con- 

 federate States, or treaties made or which shall be 

 made under their authority ; to all cases affecting am- 

 bassadors, other public ministers, and consuls ; to all 

 cases of admiralty or maritime jurisdiction ; to contro- 

 versies to which the Confederate States shall be a 

 party ; to controversies between two or more States ; 

 between a State and citizens of another State, where 

 the State is plaintiff; between citizens claiming lands 

 under grants of different States, and between a State 

 or the citizens thereof, and foreign States, citizens, or 

 subjects ; but no State shall be sued by a citizen or 

 subject of any foreign State. 



2. In all cases afi'ecting ambassadors, other public 

 ministers, and consuls, and those in which a State 

 shall be a party, the Supreme Court shall have 

 original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before 

 mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate 

 jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such ex- 

 ceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress 

 shall make. 



3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of im- 

 peachment, shall be by jury, and such trial shall be 

 held in the State where the said crimes shall have been 

 committed ; but when not committed within any State, 

 the trial shall be at such place or places as the Con- 

 gress may by law have directed. 



SEC. 3. Treason against the Confederate States shall 

 consist only in levying war against them, or in adher- 

 ing to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. 

 No person shall be convicted of treason unless on tho 

 testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or 

 on confession in open court. 



2. The Congress shall have power to declare the 

 punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason 



